Some people have at home a terrarium for snakes, chameleons, etc. But who wants a terrarium like me, but is not able to buy, since they are not cheap, do not despair, because you can make it do it yourself from under manual means. Yes, of course, it will not be like in a store, but a lizard or a newt can live in it not to bother. You can make your child so that from an early age he can observe our wonderful nature and study the habits of animals. So you can relax and watch the animal after a hard day's work.
Necessary materials and tools:
- plywood
- hacksaw
- screws
- jigsaw
- glass
- sandpaper
- a bolt with a nut.
Step 1: First, consider the drawing.
Step 2: Cut out the side walls of the terrarium. They are made of plywood 10 mm thick. And you need to make such a groove.
Step 3: Now you need to make such a groove under the glass so that it can be advanced.
Step 4: Next, using a hand jigsaw, we cut an oval hole along the marked line and clean the hole with sandpaper so as not to injure the hand with splinters.
Step 5: Then we need to make the lower part of the front and back walls, in the drawing they are indicated by the letters B, C. Their size is 350 * 70 mm.
Step 6: Now you need to do a part with a size of 350 * 40 and slightly round the corner.
Step 7: Getting Started We twist the side walls with the rear bar with the help of screws.
Step 8: Then we fasten the front bar.
Step 9: And the upper bar.
Step 10: From the bottom of the terrarium we fasten the plywood bottom measuring 345 * 140 mm.
Step 11: We close the back wall with strong gauze that allows air to pass through well or beat the iron mesh with small cells, but I didn’t have it.
Step 12: Then you need to make the door. Size 75 * 110 mm. And drill a hole for the bolt from above.
Step 13: Drill a hole above the side wall window. And we fasten the door from the terrarium to the bolt and nut.
Step 14: Then we cut in a glass measuring 335 * 210 mm. The upper side needs to be insulated with something so as not to get hurt.
Step 15: We make protection so that our glass does not fall out and is retractable.
Step 16: And we just have to sand our terrarium thoroughly with sandpaper and varnish, or even better with a stain.
And our terrarium for a lizard, etc. ready!